Re: cairo now default?

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:30:47 +0900,
Robert Pluim wrote:
> 
> >>>>> On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:43:11 +0700, Yuri Khan <address@hidden> said:
> 
>     Yuri> On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 00:32, Yuri Khan <address@hidden> wrote:
>     >> Also, I have just built Emacs 28.0.50 from Git master, with Cairo and
>     >> Harfbuzz, and on my system and my configuration it renders slightly
>     >> hinted just fine.
> 
>     Yuri> And same with Cairo but no Harfbuzz. I am on Ubuntu 19.10 and using
>     Yuri> parts of Xfce to provide XSETTINGS to applications.
> 
> Looking through the Emacs code, it does look at eg Xft/Hintstyle,
> whether Cairo or libXft is in use, but then only applies those
> settings when using Xft, so I suspect Cairo is doing the appropriate
> setting of Hintstyle for us (but that probably means we'll ignore XSETTINGS).
> 
> Yamamoto-san, in 0701634aa7 you undid your original changes to have
> the XSETTINGS apply when using Cairo. Is there a way to restore those?

Actually I'm really unfamiliar with hinting style and XSETTINGS stuff.
I'd appreciate it if someone could take over.

                             YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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